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On 3/30/2024 10:03 PM, Your Name wrote:The Brits weigh themselves in "stones" not pounds or kilograms. (IOn 2024-03-31 03:48:30 +0000, suzeeq said:On 3/30/2024 7:28 PM, Rhino wrote:>>
I apologize in advance to Americans who are inevitably aggrieved
by all things French just on principle but this video actually
makes a pretty good case for saying that English is
badly-pronounced French to a large extent.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUL29y0vJ8Q [18 minutes]
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When he explains all the English words that are borrowed from
French with only slight spelling and pronunciation changes, you
may well be persuaded by his argument.
I wondered why the Brits call cookies 'biscuits'. Then I realized
it comes from the French word for cookies 'bicotte'. They also
call eggplants 'aubergines' and zucchini 'corgettes'. There's
probably dozens of other words I can't recall now.
The English language originates from a melding of many sources with
words being 'borrowed' from other languages, including French,
German, Gaelic, Celtic, etc. Some words have altered over time,
but some words (e.g. rendezvous) have stayed the same as the
original.
"American English" is a sub-version that has its own unique
spellings and meanings for words. Partly because (despite hating
the British rule) they have stubbornly stuck to out-dated versions
of words, as well as out-dated measurement systems, that the
original Pilgrims brought with them rather than staying
contemporary with *real* English.
While GB officially went metric, many people still use the Imperial
measurements, at least for linear measures, not so much for weight.
To a much lesser extenet, there are also some different meanings
(not spellings that I can think of) for words in "Australian
English" and a few other regional variations.
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